tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-971541537715440752.post1229907170643618834..comments2023-11-05T22:12:50.570+11:00Comments on Daphne Anson: Mick Gets His Sporran in a Twist & Labour Pains Defame ZionismDaphne Ansonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12297188759548931101noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-971541537715440752.post-8411161595473940182019-10-05T17:02:24.788+10:002019-10-05T17:02:24.788+10:00I'm a pro-Israel activist based in Sheffield. ...I'm a pro-Israel activist based in Sheffield. I appreciate so much your article on Sheffield, 'Anti-Israel Shenanegans in (and out of) Steel City' (21 July, 2019), like your other writing on this blog. I'll be posting a comment after your article on Sheffield. The comment here is about one specific matter - the incompetence of Labour Friends of Palestine and the Middle East (LFPME), whose members include Jeremy Corbyn.<br /><br />The LFPME Website claims, on the page<br />https://www.lfpme.org/supporters<br />that 'Currently, 131 MPs support our work in Parliament' and gives information about the MPs.<br /> <br />The MP's on the Website's current membership list include Michael Meacher, constituency, Oldham West and Royton. But Michael Meacher isn't currently an MP. He died in 2015! <br /><br />Simon Danczuk, suspended by the Labour Party in 2015 after sending explicit messages to a 17-year old girl, banned by Labour from standing as a Labour Candidate, replaced as MP for Rochdale by Anthony Lloyd in 2017 is claimed to be the current MP for Rochdale, the MP for Rochdale who supports Labour Friends of Palestine and the Middle East! <br /><br />Other people falsely claimed by Labour Friends of Palestine and the Middle East to be currently MP's and supporting the organization (they may support the aims and objectives of the organization to a greater or lesser extent but they aren't MP's):<br /><br />Sadiq Khan (Tooting.) Left parliament in 2016 to become Mayor of London<br />Steve Rotheram (Liverpool Walton). Left Parliament in 2017 to become Metro Mayor of Liverpool City Region.<br />Andy Burnham (Leigh.) Left Parliament in 2017 to become Mayor of Manchester. <br /><br />These six people on the LFPME membership list also left Parliament in 2017. Again, the claim that they are current parliamentary supporters is false.<br />David Winnick (Walsall North).<br />Fiona Mactaggart (Slough). <br />Gisela Stuart (Birmingham Edgbaston).<br />Ian Wright (Hartlepool). <br />Jim Dowd (Lewisham West and Penge).<br />Rob Marris (Wolverhampton South West).<br /> <br />False claims have stayed on the LFPME Website for years without anybody at LFPME noticing. None of the MP's on the list seem to have noticed. You would have thought that some of them at least would have looked at the list to find out about changes - who had joined, who had left. Lisa Nandy, the new chair of LFPME, obviously hasn't noticed. You would have thought that a good look at the Website was an absolute necessity when she took over. Her mind was on other things, it seems, such as Website Cosmetics - making sure that the introductory loop which contains the film of her and other LFPME celebrities looked good, making sure that the list of parliamentary supporters looked good, whilst neglecting factual accuracy - and, of course, neglecting the massive amount of argument and evidence in favour of Israel. <br /><br /><br /> Paul Hurthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05105912331531047780noreply@blogger.com